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Why a 30-year Wait for the First Book about the Mac-Paps?

I have no doubt that my Dad, Jim Higgins, was writing about his experiences in the Spanish Civil War in early February 1939, while still on the boat back to Canada .

Major Cecil-Smith,  a journalist before volunteering for Spain, was to be editor of a book about the Canadian volunteers who fought in the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion.  He asked Dad to make some contributions; they wanted it out as quickly as possible.

Why did Jim Higgins write this inscription on the flyleaf of  The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion by Victor Hoar
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